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This Is Me--2019 A to Z Theme

The Challenge of 2019 was the 10th! Since this was kind of a milestone year for A to Z my theme was a retrospective of sorts, looking at my 10 years as a blogger as well as ruminations about my life as it is and as I hope it yet can be. I've got places to be and people to see along the way. Hope you'll join me for this part of my journey...

Always a work in progress--welcome to my blog.

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Friday, March 29, 2013

My #atozchallenge Theme for April: Film Genres A to Z

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In my recent post for Alex Cavanaugh's Movie Countdown Blogfest, I mentioned that my list of movies would be hinting toward my Blogging from A to Z Challenge theme. Well, the first big hint was the list of movies. I am a big fan of movies and there are many movies that I like far more than others.

My April theme will be some of my favorite films based on film genres A to Z. An example as a preview is my first post. For "A" the genre will be films about automobile accidents. That should give you some idea of where this will be going.

So that's it! Keeping it short today. I've got 26 movie posts to get ready. Yeah, that's right--I haven't even started. This could be a train wreck. Hmm--what are some movies about train wrecks?

Blog Disaster!

I'm not the only one with blogging problems. Our co-host Stephen Tremp was banished from Blogger! Hopefully this will only be temporary, but in the meantime you can find Stephen at his new blog address http://stephentremp.wordpress.com/. Hope you retrieve the old blog successfully Stephen.

Connections: The Circle of A to Z Life

During the 2011 pre-challenge build-up, I got some promotional time for the A to Z Challenge on the Dennis and Judi radio show on FM 101.5 in New Jersey. We got some sign ups as a result of that brief appearance.

For the 2012 Challenge our official badge was designed by appropriately named artist Ada Z. Ada also contributed a video to the A to Z Video Challenge.

This past week Ada Z posted on YouTube a video commercial parody related to Dennis and Judi. The station picked it up and featured it on the station website. It's pretty clever and very short. I've embedded the YouTube clip below. Take a moment to enjoy the clip and perhaps you can visit the station site and leave a comment. Let them know you're from the A to Z Challenge. Who knows? Maybe we'll get another mention on the air. If you can, tweet or pass on the video for others to see to help Ada Z get her work noticed by more people.

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I feel so sorry for Stephen, I've encountered so many problems of late as you know. I still don't know what went wrong but started blogs again and again, Looking forward to the challenge and wish every one good luck.

If it's a parody, I need to catch the original.Announced my theme this morning. It began simple, then got a little more complicated. I'm still adding things to my post.Bummer about Stephen's site! At least most of the email reminders had his new website listed.

I lost both of my blogs for about two hours last summer. I eventually got a response about being in violation of Blogger's policy, and then finally a person responded that it was a glitch that had to do with connecting my Blogger profile to my Google+ profile. Both blogs returned, and I immediately disconnected the two profiles so it wouldn't happen again.

Oh my goodness, film genres! I didn't even know there were film genres starting with all letters :)I also have a theme, I'll play a tune every day, obviously a tune on the mandolin or melodeon or concertina for each letter. It'll be fun but I still don't have any tunes for X or Z. I've both lost blogs and decided to delete blogs and started over. It's not a big deal but it's not fun when you didn't choose to do it, and lost your old posts.

I love movies so I'll have to come back and check out your posts. And poor Stephen! That's horrible, nightmarish actually. That happened to Old Kitty once but she got it back so I hope Stephen is successful in getting his blog back.

Oh that's too bad about Stephen. And I am sad to say I just can't manage to participate this year. Isn't it amazing how this idea of yours as grown exponentially into this amazing event. You should be so proud of yourself. I'll look forward to reading your movie genre posts, Lee.Karen

Andrew -- Who knows? I guess it might have something to do with corporate entities, soulless computers, and sneaky bots trolling the internet. It's Google and they can do what they want and maybe don't even know what they are doing sometimes.

This is so interesting Lee! Going to be intense seeing if you can find a genre for every single letter, obviously ones like A for Action will be easy but when it comes to the tougher letters like G it's going to get intense and I just have this awesome feeling that I'm going to learn a lot about film. This is very exciting, honestly the Challenge can't come soon enough. You're an absolute lad Lee!

I read somewhere that you are to blame for starting this mess in the first place. LOL Is there a history recorded anywhere of the Challenge? When it first started, for instance? I know it has been going on for several years. I wanted to include that info in my introduction to my post.

I am going to try to do words I'd like to meet in person for my theme. Not sure how that is going to work out, but it could be fun.

Is is a bad thing that my to Z posts aren't themed? I *tried* to theme them, but then stopped when I kept getting bloggers' block when I tried to stick to the themed topics, so now, I'm just kind of going wherever the wind takes me.

Yes, I've lost my blog...sorta...and had to start a new one, back in May 2012 (or 2011...I don't quite remember) but luckily it was just for one day due to some type of systems error that brought down the entire blogger service platform, affecting tons of bloggers. Yes, I have a theme, finally! Talk about being in the nick of time! LOL

The mention of film genres had me thinking that you were going to cover the Genres of film -- Cult, Noir, Horror, B-Movie, Anime', Blaxploitation, etc. now I see you're going moreso in the direction of types/categories of films...it will be fun to learn about your favorite flicks :)

It does make me feel better that you haven't started writing the posts for this theme yet....'cause it means I'm not the only one coming in at the last hour, trying to whip something up for our dear readers, lol

I have my posts all sorted out but not written. But I will be ready to go Monday. This will be my third year! I was going to be in the challenge with both my blogs but decided against one of them. I did notice it is still on the list tho I did respond to Livia's(?)email and ask that Day of Grace be deleted. Looking forward to April!

I've found out about Steve's situation and I was aware of his new link. Thank you for also sharing it.

You know I wish you well and all those involved, much fun and fulfilment. And in the spirit of a sharing, caring blogging community, I shall continue to bring further awareness of what you are doing by forwarding your posting onto the various social networks.

As for me and my satirical alternatives. They shall continue to promote you, even in my fun way. I understand I wont get a mention for what I do. However, that's fine. Be well and enjoy your Easter weekend, my friend.

I also love movies, and look forward to your wonderful theme! Ada's video is very clever, and I'm glad the Dennis and Judi Show appreciated it! Sorry about Stephen's blogging trouble. I'll head on over. See you on Monday Lee!

I'm sorry to hear about Stephen's misfortune. I've had my fair share of bloggy-related drama as well.Within the last 2 months, my PC motherboard crashed and my blog was hacked. Everything seems to be back on track now. Fingers crossed.See you during the challenge Lee.

Hey Lee, that's awful about Stephen's blog...how does this happen? I don't think I'll be particpating in the blogfest this year, but I'll be reading a bunch of them..can't wait to read yours about the movies! I love movies...well..some of them anyways! lol..btw, I mentioned you in my post today..it's about that idea you had for setting your life to music, (something like that). I thought it was a great idea! Have a great weekend.

Just wanted to stop by and say that I think it is amazing how your brilliant idea has grown so huge. I am looking forward to my third year of participating in the A to Z and I want to thank you so much for making it happen once again. With a little help from your friends. (I've already heard from two minions!!)

This year I decided to go with history. It's my not so secret love. Last year I tried talking about healthy foods--which I thought would be popular--but I didn't get much traffic. We'll have to see how this year goes. In all fairness, I also didn't comment as much last year as I would have liked.

Tough break for Stephen. Hope he gets it all settled. Someone once reported my blog to Wordpress and they suspended it without even a word to me. I gave them a few choice words.

I have a theme going this year. We shall see how that works out.----------

I did want to FYI. I was going to do two blogs this year but that is just not happening. So please remove my blog called The Naila Moon Project.----------Please come by though at Just the Stuff Ya Know. :)

Sorry about Stephen too. I had that happen with Google but got it back. Recently though, it was with FB. Don't get me started on that one, However, I managed to get it back too.

Arlee, I did lose my blog --- about 2 months into starting! It was quite frustrating for a new blogger, and I basically had to start all over. I was so new, I hadn't even started backing up my posts yet! All my lovely AtoZ entries from last year... GONE! I managed to save a few and reposted them a few at a time, but it simply wasn't the same. Now, a year later, we're slightly more savvy, so I'm hoping my AtoZ posts will lead right into my "official" blogiversary in May. Poor Stephen, though! Hope he has better luck than I did!

You picked a fun theme and I'm looking forward to reading them! Thanks for putting this all together! :)

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